OCCUPY THE CULTURE

Jason Flores-Williams will be in NYC this week doing occupant interventions, including a reading at Bowery Poetry Club & Cafe. Here's an excerpt from the text Jason will be reading from (originally published in Brooklyn Rail):

Now here was the vision: truth has a way of being relentless. Truth has a way of refusing to die. There will be many people who read this and see it as an overly sincere and melodramatic piece of crap, but there are those who will recognize it as one loser’s agonized attempt to get at the heart of the matter. And for those people, i.e. you and me, this game isn’t over. You can say that truth is going to use us for something, or maybe we’re braver than we think we are, or maybe that the bullshit volume of misery is going to get turned up so high that ultimately we’ll have no choice but to say fuck it and take a stand, but something is going to happen here. We will not go gently. I can see it in the eyes and on the faces: the desperate realization that five years of something beautiful is infinitely better than 30 more years of lies. We may go down, but we will go down swinging. The final act of this generation has yet to be staged.

The reading is from 3 to 4 pm this Sunday the 16th of October, and will also feature Ted Hamm, editor of Brooklyn Rail, and the Occupennial's Paul McLean.

"Jason Flores-Williams is a literary force of a nature...A train wreck of genius." San Francisco Chronicle.

"Jason Flores-Williams is the king of American protest literature." The Yellow Rake.